"I didn't really have any relationship with the A.D.," Pelini said. "The guy, you guys saw him (Sunday), the guy is a total p----. I mean, he is, and he's a total c---."
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He also threw some additional jabs at his introduction as the Youngstown State coach:
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/12042211/bo-pelini-takes-...
I could drink with Bo. He seems like he would be fun to hang with.
Hang at Youngstown for a year or two and then maybe think about stopping by Blacksburg for a while Bo...
Whit Babcock is far too smart to hire Bo Pelini. Believe it or not, there are actually excellent coaches available on the market each & every year who are not complete jerks. Bo Pelini is a complete jerk, and that is the cleanest way it can be described.
I get that impression from the outside, too, but the guys that play for him love him to no end. Unlike Mark Mangino, who was a jerk to everyone and the players apparently thought him a fat bastard.
Maybe it's a case of him being a jerk until he's our jerk. Not that I'm advocating he become our coach.
So, if our head coach made those comments about our fan base, it would be okay because he's OUR coach? Nope, the Hokie Nation isn't that stupid. Not as a group, maybe a few would excuse it for the wins. The guy is a jerk. Period. Again, as I said above - lots of excellent coaches... blah blah... get the point - we don't need a jerk for a head coach.
EDIT - the quotes & audio clips are funny, but in the manner of 'Thank goodness we don't have that guy!'
chillax dude, horse was making an observation and one that he said he didn't agree with. He literally says:
we get it. you don't like Bo Pelini.
Chill yourself, as I responded to the point he made that perhaps people accept their coach being a jerk, but not otherwise. I merely made the point that philosophy is hypocritical. I never thought he adhered to the philosophy, but I commented on it. So, you don't need to rush to defense...
As for Bo, I actually like his talent as a coach. I just don't want him to be our coach, nor can understand why anyone else would. It's not at all about liking the guy, it's about what Hokie fans are willing to accept.
whoa, repeat this mantra.... no more 5 hour energy, no more 5 hour energy
I think you're the only one getting defensive around here. you opened your comment with this:
It was directed at Horse's comment not a generalized statement on Pelini or the philosophy being hypocritical. You say your comments are not about "liking" the guy but about what Hokie fans are willing to accept. Then you go on to call the guy a jerk 4 times and a lunatic 1 time in your comments, so in fact it is about you not liking him.
that's fine. I'm cool with that. Just thought your comment on Horse's comment could be dialed down a notch or twenty and more reason based than "he's a jerk". but I could be wrong.
Hold on Kreskin (google it), you're still jumping too quickly. Try following the comments above, where a poster said he wouldn't mind having Pelini, which led to Horse's post. Which led to my post.
I don't think Hokie nation is that stupid to want a coach like Pelini. I do think Pelini acts like a jerk & the videos show him acting like a lunatic on the sideline. You seem to think that is harsh. I guess you need to fill me in on the politically correct adjective to describe a coach who calls his AD a p-word & c-word and who refers to the fan base as a-words. Goodness knows I wouldn't want to be harsh in describing that guy as a jerk, LOL...
For someone who hates a guy so much for how insulting he is you seem to not have much issue with throwing out insults of your own. I do know who Kreskin is actually, thanks for being condescending.
Just as you missed the point where Horse said he wasn't advocating him, you missed where I said I am cool with you hating the guy. So this:
just reads like this:
Besides the fact you are so eager to jump into something that didn't concern you, you are wrong, yet you seem determined to continue the pointless angle you've taken. You don't know what I think, as your argument above has proven. Yet you want to continue your harangue.
Going down the list - Kreskin was somewhat popular in the 60's/70's, well before the time of many on here, and that was the reason for the google reference. No condescension intended, yet you keep trying to paint me in a negative light any way possible. You are just too obvious in trying to do it, though.
You still don't understand my original post that made you so upset. Evidently you never will, so I'll let that rest. You also keep trying the tangent of wrongly trying to ascertain my affection or lack thereof for Pelini. You refuse to actually talk about Pelini, you just focus on my perspective of him.
First you say you know I don't like Pelini, now that didn't work so you've graduated to claiming you know I hate him. What next, you're going to claim to know I have a hit man looking for him? It's getting silly.
You really are overreaching here, and you're well into trolling territory. I'd suggest you find a more productive way to spend your time on here than trying to agitate me, because it really isn't working.
This whole exchange is back-and-forth "no YOU don't understand." Let it go. We're getting into Bender territory here.
That was the reason for my last post.
Trying to get in the last word doesn't help... Then you just look like Nebraska shooting back at Pelini. (See? Staying on topic!)
The topic of this subthread is about getting off topic, so by getting on topic, you both violated and accomplished the goal of the subthread
Bros. The airing of grievances doesn't come the 23rd
I apologize for squirreling a thread. Especially since I coined the "Squirrel" usage...
leg for you sir
Ashamed squirrel is ashamed
That's clearly a chipmunk. Keep your off-topics on-topic, fernley!
Yep, Bo may be a good coach and players love him but he seems like an absolute dousche bag.
I have never seen a coach act as he did vs. VT in 2008.
Jim Harbaugh was worse during the first half of the 2011 (2010 season) Orange Bowl IMO...
Pelini VS Harbaugh would have been a great bowl game!
he did get us a free 15 yards in that game with his craziness iirc.
Bo acts like a child that just got put in timeout for hitting another child and instead of acknowledging his mistake, tells his mommy that the teacher is mean to him.
By all accounts, Pelini's players loved him. The guy won 9(?) games or more every season he was at Nebraska, and now he's at an FCS team. I do think he's a good coach. I will be rooting for him..
I think the problem is that only the players loved him. A million dollar coach needs to be able to tone down the emotions from time to time. He seems to make good points about the A.D. not being around though. I think I saw similar tweets from the players.
On one hand I agree, but on the other I kind of like that about him. It helps develop an 'us against the world' mentality.
Maybe in an insanely paranoid manner. Of course, that's not the type of behavior that donors admire, nor tolerate. Nor do university officials or basically any responsible adults. There is zero reason for such a lunatic to be in charge of 'developing young men' when he cannot even control himself. Those days are long gone, thankfully.
That mentality is only productive if all of "us" are included. It is especially ineffective if the "world" consists of people who are part of the "us" and should be given proper respect.
That said, I believe Bo has recognized a leadership weakness. Despite his use of obviously inappropriate language, his frustration can't be dismissed. I don't think he's out to throw stones at any old thing. The hire that Nebraska made would have left me vomiting. If we hire a 60+ year old coach not named Nick Saban (one with an average % win record at that) when Beamer retires, I will flip my shit.
May the road ahead of us be lit by the bridges we burn behind us!
dont burn bridges.
#TEAMSTEELBRIDGES
The Bo Pelini situation is what makes me wary of naming Bud VT's next coach. I think the two of them are very similar in the passion they have for the game and for winning, but as we saw after the Cincy (or was it Pitt?) game in 2012, Bud had some pretty strong words in a press conference. The difference here is that Bud took shots at the reporters who asked the questions and defended his athletes whereas Bo fired words at his old boss. Bud definitely has what it takes to develop a scheme to win games, but I'm not sure if he can be the face of a nationally relevant institution.
My point is that we want a guy with the mind to win football games and the attitude to pump up the players, but we don't want a guy who is going to fly off the handle and start painting the university in a negative light. I feel like Bud at the helm would be one or two losing streaks away from losing his temper, and badly.
I think that comparison is a big stretch. I personally would love for Bud to be our next head coach.
Bud is also a lot like nick Saban.
Hopefully in terms of a head coach. I think I could handle legitimately having a chance for the national championship every year.
That is a monumental difference.
If you want to draw a comparison between Bo Pelini and any coach we've had at VT, it would be with a former basketball coach of ours. Not that he threw anyone under the bus, but the demeanor is the same as is the fact that many players wanted to play for him.
I've never once seen anything from Bud that even begins to paint Virginia Tech in a negative light. Not even a little bit. I think this is a huge reach.
Personally, I think Bo is a complete asshat on the sidelines. That being said, it would be refreshing to see some of the fire that he shows on our sidelines. Not necessarily with all the jackassery he brings, but sometimes I look at these other programs with an energetic coach thats actively constantly celebrating with the players and getting involved in sideline talks during games, and those teams just feed off that energy. Bo strikes me as the kind of guy who would go to the ends of the earth for his players, and the reaction from the Nebraska team after his firing kind of backs that up, and in turn, the kids give their all for him each and every week.
Its the same reason I think that Buzz Williams is going to be an excellent coach for us once we get going. Its also the same reason that I think Bud Foster has had such success on defense. Their energy just brings out the best in kids.
This is the best part of the entire thing:
Pelini may be a jerk or whatever, but he's fiercely loyal to his players and who knows: he may have been right about the whole AD situation at Nebraska.
He could absolutely be right about the AD, but that doesn't excuse his profane behavior. He couldn't even get through his introductory speach at Youngstown without looking in the rearview mirrror once again. I think Bo is a good coach and loves his players, he just isn't a good face of the program when he acts like a child. Somebody brought up the comparison to harbaugh, and look where he's heading after burning down bridges. Relationships matter.
They both come across looking like assholes. Pelini shouldn't have said and acted how he did, but Nebraska really needed to take the high road. Instead, they leak the audio of the last time Pelini spoke to his players and then the President and AD issue statements further attacking him.
Remember how bad we came across with the Seth Greenberg situation? Imagine if we started leaking everything that was being said behind closed doors. That is what Nebraska is actively doing right now. If I was a coach, that school just removed itself from my list of attractive destinations.